Hook and eye for garments



A.DONNELLON. HOOK AND BYE FOR GARMENTS.

(No Model.)

No. 572,528. Patented Dec. 8, I896 zufiiwsaaa- F UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

ALICE DONNELLON, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

HOOK AND EYE FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,528, dated December8, 1896.

Application filed January 24, 1895. fierial No. 536,04t9. (N model.)

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Hooks and Eyes for Garments, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to hooks and eyes for garments, the object beingto provide a hook or eye that may be attached to a material withoutsewing the same thereto.

I will describe a hook and eye embodying my invention and then point outthe novel features in the appended claim. A

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a hook and eye embodyingmyimprovement as secured to a garment. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a hookbefore attachment. Fig. 3 is a side view thereof. Fig. at shows theformation of the parts when applied to a fabric. Fig. 5 is'a side viewthereof. Fig. 6 is a plan view of an eye in its form when attached to afabric. Fig. 7 is a side view thereof. Fig. 8 shows an eye of modifiedform. Fig. 9 is a plan view of a movable keeper employed. Fig. 10 is anedge view thereof. Fig. 11 shows the eye and keeper in the form whenattachedto a garment, and Figs. 12 and 13 show the hook when soattached.

Referring by letter to the' drawings, A designates a hook, and Bdesignates an eye. The two are similar in construction, excepting, ofcourse, that the hook has a return or hook portion a and the eye has aneye portion b. Each is formed of a single piece of wire bent to form thehook or eye portion, keepers, and straight pin portions a.

In the hook the keepers a are formed by bending the wire laterallyoutward and crossing it adjacent to the hooks, and in the eye the wireis crossed adjacent the part b, to form the laterally-extendedeye-keepers b. The keepers a b have their openings in a directiontransverse to the length of the hook or eye, so that the same will liefiat upon the material. to which'it is attached.

In the example of my improvement just described to attach the hooks andeyes to a garment the pin portions ct are driven or pinned through thematerial for about half modification, consisting of a metal plate havingat one side an integral slide portion d,

and at the opposite side the ends of the plate are turned over to formkeepers (Z' for the pin-points.

In the drawings the plates are shown as sufiiciently long to extendacross and beyond the outer side of the pin-bars.

In attaching this hook or eye to a garment the pin-bars are first passedthrough the slide (Z and then half their length into the material, andthen the ends are turned back and the points spring into the keepers,which have their inner edges against the edge of the garment material.

In both examples of my improvement it will be seen that the pinportions, which are designed to engage through material, are eX- tendedthroughout their length in substantially the same horizontal plane asthe keepers engaging their ends, so that there is but little spacebetween said pin portions and the portions engaging against the surfaceof the material to which the device may be attached. It is obvious bythis construction that the hook or eye will lie flat or close againstmaterial in est strain 5 and two reversed. points a a, Which Signed atNew York, in the county of New enter the said opening after passingthrough York and State of New York, this'2d day of the material of thegarment, the said parts January, A. D. 1895. being also constructed tolie flat and close ALICE DONNELLON.

5 against the face of the material in a manner \Vitnesses:

similar to that of the ordinary sewed hook and JAs. E. WARNER,

eye, substantially as described. WV. L. BENNEM.

